I’ve had several small ideas in the past that have grown to become very large and very real over time. My father once told me that anything Man dreams up, either he or another man will then set out to create and make it real. One idea often inspires another and sets in motion a chain of events that leads to either a historic breakthrough or a major innovation.

One creation can influence or inspire a person to make another piece of art related to it without the author or creator even realizing their original inspiration at first. Life is crazy that way.

A song can inspire the creation of a film. A film can inspire a song. A film can inspire someone to create music to accompany it as well. One song can be used to create another completely different composition comprised of the original song’s elements.

The concept of inception is based on an idea being implanted in another person’s mind through their subconscious. Why? Because in order for it to take effect they must believe it’s their own idea and in the conscious, real world our minds can always trace back the origin or inspiration of an idea to an external source.

Perfect example, the creation of our site Bloggerhouse began with a joke. A joke I made on Twitter. I used the Joe Budden/Method Man/Vibe Magazine fiasco as a parallel and created an elaborate hypothetical parody situation where Eskay was picked in a Vibe list in a bracket against me for “Greatest Blogger Ever”.

I said some unintentionally sideways slick shit on Twitter in this fantasy scenario which then resulted in Eskay showing up @ Hot 97 with Angie Martinez on the air dissing me the next day. Then Nation (of Nah Right) jumps into the fray and I call in to the show & we all begin to argue.

Then the entire NMC is heated @ me and hurling insults so I created a supergroup of Hip Hop bloggers consisting of myself, Eric of When They Reminisce, Travis of Wake Your Daughter Up & Brandon Soderberg of No Trivia called Bloggerhouse.

This was a parody of the supergroup Slaughterhouse that Joe Budden is a member of as well as a parallel between the real life events that occurred at the time of the writing of said internet parody via Twitter all in 140 character increments.

We then went back & forth with a ridiculous & humorous hypothetical beef that I used to parody the real life one between Method Man, Busta Rhymes, the Wu Tang Clan & Slaughterhouse. If I had the resources of Aaron McGruder & Rebel Base it would have been epic.

Needless to say, the entire parody became pretty popular & got me 100 new followers on Twitter in May 2009. I even made jokes about which one of us would get a tattoo that said “BLOGERHOUSE” on our arm. Bloggerhouse. It was a joke. An elaborate joke I started on Twitter last Spring. There’s the real origin of Bloggerhouse, people.

More than a year later, now Wake Your Daughter Up, When They Reminisce & Poisonous Paragraphs have been merged into one major blog. We have an online radio show, an independent artist Wikipedia page & soon? Bloggerhouse Recordings. Imagine if Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz never posted that video online last year. How different would things be right now for us (myself, Eric & Travis)? Insane, right?

This is the gift (and curse) of the internet and technological advances in communications and media. Whereas once it took significant time & effort to get in contact with someone across the globe but now? It’s instantaneous.

I can chop it up with a producer from the Netherlands in real time. I can exchange ideas with a writer from London via Skype right now. I can carry on an iChat session while I write this sentence with someone in Brooklyn. Before, the flow of information had breaks in it. Now? It’s all immediate.

What does this all mean? That we are currently in the Information Age of data and media, thus inspiration is merely a mouse click away. Uploading it and sharing it with the world? Just one mouse click away. Possible instant fame or becoming infamous worldwide? Also, one mouse click away.

When Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were playing their back and forth intellectual game of chess throughout the 1880’s and 1890’s (why has no one made a film about this yet?) there were major breaks in the transmission of information and ideas (which ironically Tesla was dangerously close to eliminating altogether). Two minds of their stature would’ve had a field day in this exponential world and it’s digital climate.

Can you imagine the rate of exchange of ideas that happened then versus now? Back in the mid to late 1990’s communication technology reportedly doubled every 6-9 months. Imagine where we’re at now? We exist in an exponential existence and many of us are too young to realize exactly how much has changed in such a short time.

In 1993, I first encountered the text only internet. By 1995, my school English High was the first in Boston to have full internet and I was one of the students who demonstrated it to the media & Boston Public School board. By 1996, I had a 33.6K modem and a 66 MHz computer and the internet was widespread. Nowadays, you’d laugh at those specs but back then? That was fast as hell.

I remember what new worlds were uncovered back then and how quickly everything began to change around me. Back in the days, I had to go to the theater to see a new feature film. I can find damn near anything I want online if I know how and where to look for it now. Long out of print books have been scanned and uploaded.

Obscure albums, 45’s & 78’s have been recorded digitally then uploaded online for others to peruse and share. Old films on VHS have been ripped, digitally enhanced then uploaded as well. It’s a brave new world, indeed. One where net neutrality is a major issue.

One where we live in a customizable, on demand world with free flowing information and media where communication technology is growing by leaps and bounds yearly. We simply MUST rethink all of these archaic copyright laws and piracy statutes as they don’t fit the world they’re intended to regulate.

The law simply isn’t growing as quickly as the technology it’s trying to police .You can’t kill the transmission of ideas. You simply can’t effectively rein in, govern and completely control the free flow of information. Especially not with laws that don’t readily adapt to the current times.

In the time it took me to write this piece, hundreds of thousands of ideas, thoughts and plans were exchanged via the internet. Hundreds of thousands of songs were heard that inspired the creation of thousands of more songs. Of those songs heard, many were shared with others that will, in turn, do the same.

Hundreds of thousands of films were streamed (legally and illegally). Hundreds of thousands more were downloaded. Thousands of pieces will be written and posted for others to read because of them. Thousands of treatments, specs scripts, plays and films will also be written because by people that viewed said films.

Someone will create something completely original that will spark thousands worldwide to do the same. Every innovation was followed by someone who either improved on it or created other advancements in that very same field. Church music begat the Blues which begat Jazz which begat Rhythm & Blues which begat Rock & Roll and so on.

We can always trace back to when things changed or the people whose innovations ignited new ideas and blazed new trails. Even with this frenetic flow of information, our minds can still trace back to where we got our initial inspiration or ideas from. It’s in our biology as humans and no amount of technological advancement can change that fact.

A few questions before I finish. When you watched “Inception” did you notice all of the parallels and similarities to themes from “The Matrix” in it? Were the action scenes and special effects at all reminiscent of any other films you’d seen before but just improved on? Or did we all just happen share the same lucid dream?

One.